Based Book Sale
This is a quick shoutout of appreciation to Hans Schantz for organizing and running the Based Book Sale. Just go on over to Han’s ‘Stack or click on the link to The Federalist article to see what it’s all about. Links to both are below this post.
A personal note. A friend tipped me off about the sale two days before the deadline for submission. I don’t consider my book to be conservative. I think art, even minor art, should not be explicitly political. It should simply tell the truth about the human condition.
I had a few ideas, and I wrote about them honestly.
That said, in a cultural world where people who believe men can get pregnant, anything honest becomes conservative. Anything not explicitly leftist becomes conservative. If that’s the case, I won’t shy from the label. So be it, I wrote a conservative book.
I couldn’t be more pleased to be part of the Based Book Sale. I’ve already made a few sales but most important, I took part in something that goes against the gatekeepers. That alone was reason enough to take part.
Thank you, Hans.
You can read the blurb and first chapter of The Brothers Of Redemption at Amazon, so let me tell you how I came to write the book.
In 2010, I read about this experiment in Live Science:
Meet the Mice with Two Dads: A Reporter's Squeaky Lab Tour
HOUSTON – The problem with the mice with two fathers is that they're distractingly adorable. Sure, they're a mean feat of genetic engineering and a possible first step on the long road toward gay couples creating biological children. But with their tiny bewhiskered faces and itty-bitty paws, it's hard to ignore: This is scientific progress at its cutest.
People? Nah.
Even if scientists can overcome all of the technical barriers, it won't be so easy to remove women from the reproductive equation. After all, even the mice with two fathers aren't precisely motherless.
"You need a uterus," Behringer said, adding dryly, "People always forget this."
You need a uterus… thanks, Doc! I thought. And: someone will write a book about this.
Fast forward a few years. No one did. Long story short: I did.
The book that came out wasn’t primarily about artificial reproductive technology. That’s for someone else—go for it.
I wrote about normal men and women in a world in which a small caste of powerful men uses reproductive technology to wield power.
The series is called “Technium,” a word I coined to capture the dilemma of creators trapped in their creativity. Every intellectual leap becomes a weapon, reinforcing the might of the powerful. No point lamenting this. It's the reality. We’re not in a Matrix. There are no pills that enslave or free you. There is only your mind, and reality.
LINKS
The Federalist: The Based Book Sale Is How We Fight the Leftist Gatekeepers
The Brothers Of Redemption: Amazon
The Brothers Of Redemption: Universal Book Link (other vendors)